Jimmy Governor

Bushranger, Deceased Person

1875 – 1901

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Who was Jimmy Governor?

Jimmy Governor was one of the Governor brothers, two Indigenous Australian men who committed a series of murders in the Central West region of New South Wales around the turn of the twentieth century. Jimmy and Joe Governor were the last recorded outlaws of Australian colonial governments.

Governor had held various jobs, including that of an Aboriginal tracker, and he was continually discriminated against. He married a 16 year old white woman in 1898, Ethel Page, who gave birth to Jimmy's child, and perhaps was carrying another child fathered by him at the time of the murders. Jimmy and Ethel had to endure criticism from other people for having their inter-racial marriage, which was not accepted kindly at that time.

In April 1900, Governor was employed by John Mawbey, fencing the Mawbey's property at Breelong, near Gilgandra. Jimmy Governor wanted more rations from Mawbey, but the latter would not give any more until the contract upon which Governor was engaged was finished.

Jimmy and his friend Jacky Underwood murdered four members of the Mawbey family, including three children, on the night of 20 July.

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Born
1875
Ethnicity
  • Indigenous Australians
Profession
Died
Jan 18, 1901
Resting place
Rookwood Cemetery

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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